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A brand new report accomplished by workers on the Metropolis of Vaughan says the opening of a full-service hospital within the metropolis final 12 months saved the provincial healthcare system from the “risk of collapse” throughout Ontario’s third COVID-19 wave.
On Feb. 7, 2021, Mackenzie Well being opened the Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital early solely to cope with COVID-19 sufferers, in line with a report Vaughan councillors will contemplate Tuesday.
Between February and June the hospital solely served as a COVID-19 care facility, taking affected person transfers from throughout the GTA. Throughout that point, the hospital handled greater than 500 coronavirus sufferers from different hospitals, the report stated.
“Without the relief provided by CVH by opening solely to provide COVID-19 care, Ontario’s health care system would have been at risk of collapse,” Metropolis of Vaughan workers wrote.
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Throughout that interval, solely intensive care and drugs beds have been open.
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Ontario’s third wave compelled a raft of affected person transfers between hospitals.
“There is nothing we can compare it to, it is the most busy we have ever been,” Justin Smith, chief flight paramedic with Ornge, informed Ontario Chronicle on the time.
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Brampton Civic topped the listing of hospitals transferring sufferers out in April. Tens of sufferers have been additionally transferred from Humber River Hospital in Toronto and Credit score Valley Hospital in Mississauga.
On June 7, Vaughan’s new hospital opened to offer full service care to York Area and the GTA. In response to metropolis workers, it was the primary “net new hospital to be built in Ontario in more than 30 years.”
The hospital opened with 250 beds and may be elevated to 550 beds with additional spending.
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